We all hate overtime!!!!

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I work in a very busy and large assisted living facility. The boss tells us "Don't leave until all of your work and new doctor's orders are finished." All of the nurses here get stuck doing overtime.:angryfire None of us ever want overtime. The boss said that "management" is upset with all of us because of all of our overtime!!!!! :trout:

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I guess they need to get together, figure out which they want, orders done or overtime. Will the next shift not pick up where you left off? Our evening shift or night shift finishes up the orders that day shift does not get done. But I always hated leaving orders unfinished so I usually stayed over, even if they insisted that I did not have to. We have really good evening/night nurses on the floor that I worked. It was nice.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Today I clocked out 45 minutes late. My job seems to pick up around 1pm and doesn't stop until my relief arrives invariably making me late every day. Mercifully my boss is fine with it.

I hate overtime and would love walking out at 3:15 daily, but it's not possible all the time.

You can't have it both ways.

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How about the incredibly rude, inconsiderate nurse from last night. She was pissed she got called in (hello, she was on-call!), so she takes she dear sweet time getting to the hospital (she lives not more than 10 minutes away if that. So now it's 11:20 before she even gets there. Then she takes her time in the locker room, puts away her water bottles, etc., and does not arrive to the floor for report until after 11:30. I mean come on, it wasn't my fault she got called in, why take it out on me? I didn't get out of there until 11:45.

Sorry, this was not exactly on topic, I have just been fuming about it all day!

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I work for an agency, so I see this sort of craziness often. At least 3 of the facilities I go to have nurses who will give report, grab their paperwork, go to the break room, CLOCK OUT, then complete their paperwork on their own time in the breakroom. I'm sure this is highly illegal, but these nurses have decided that this is the only solution to keep management from yelling at them constantly about overtime.

Perhaps your facility has heard of such practices and is hoping you will all be so generous? One of the nurses even told me, " it's no different than a teacher taking tsets home to grade." Well, of course it is! Teachers are on salary!

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Thanks all. ;) I was shocked to hear about nurses who clock out and then finish their work!!!!! :down:No way!!!!! Management can complain all they want about having to pay for overtime. No matter what they will pay me for my time!!!! Yes, maybe they are hoping they will scare us and that we will all start clocking out and then finish our work?:lol2::lol2::lol2:

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Specializes in icu, er, transplant, case management, ps.

The first four months I worked here, in sunny Florida, I rarely got off on time. I usually worked one to one and half hours of vovertime every shift. Made the DON madder the h*** but she had to pay me. We resolved the problem by moving me into ICU.

I resolved the problem by quiting at the end of six months.

Woody:balloons:

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Specializes in ER/EHR Trainer.

We have an overlap of one hour during our work day-13 hour shifts 6:30-7:30-it usually works great! Report can be given, the nurse going off can finish charting or simple tasks-nurse coming on can do initial assessments and pickup pending orders. I used to go crazy if I left orders and felt it necessary to complete them....I then was told by a much more experienced nurse that no matter who the patient is going to (the floor or your relief) THAT NURSING IS A 24 HOUR JOB and whatever is incomplete will be/should be picked up as part of the job. While I still do my best to complete all orders, I now realize that I am only human. The other good thing about that hour overlap, is that if you had a good day, and one of your peers is in a code, or needs help-you have that ability to be a good workmate and help out. Occasionally, we still have overtime, or sometimes I'll stay and help send people to their room assignments or close areas-so OT is always a possiblity. Don't love it, but a necessary evil.

Maisy;)

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Specializes in Neuro, Critical Care.

no one ever says anything about our OT. Its expected. We have a lot of pts. We are busy. Things innevitably happen right at shift change. Ooops it 730, my pt. is vomiting blood all over the place during handoff. I could stay and make sure my pt. is ok and help the AM nurse who JUST GOT THERE and doesnt know the pt. that well...or I can leave her and the pt. to clock out...what choice do we really have? LOL in fact if at paycheck time if we have less than 74 hours a pay period they take it out of our PTO...i clocked out with 73h and 45m and they took 15 mins of my PTO!

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I work for an agency, so I see this sort of craziness often. At least 3 of the facilities I go to have nurses who will give report, grab their paperwork, go to the break room, CLOCK OUT, then complete their paperwork on their own time in the breakroom. I'm sure this is highly illegal, but these nurses have decided that this is the only solution to keep management from yelling at them constantly about overtime.

Perhaps your facility has heard of such practices and is hoping you will all be so generous? One of the nurses even told me, " it's no different than a teacher taking tsets home to grade." Well, of course it is! Teachers are on salary!

This happens all of the time where I work also. We have 12 hr. shifts and I work 7p-7a. Whateverj the day shift does not get done gets dumped on the night shift and we have to get it done, while at the same time, most of the admissions arrive at night and we have half the nurses as day shift has. Last week one of the unit managers told me she used to be in charge of a 40 be skilled floor by herself and still manage to get 7 admissions done! Yeah, I'd love to see that! Thanks for the support!:idea:

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I ususally clock out 15 to 20 minutes late finishing up numbers and checking boxes, ya' know important stuff. It doesn't matter when you work a 36 hr week. When I was a lot younger and worked as a patient tech, I worked at a LTC in which the DON made a tech come in an hour later to say she (the DON) had one week without overtime! 20 some odd years later I still don't believe she did that.

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Specializes in LTC, Sub-acute, correctional.

Boy, do I have some bitterness about this one!!! I just left a job because I was constantly forced to stay overtime due to (1) the next shift nurse getting there whenever they felt like it and (2) our shift-to-shift report turning into a rambling-story-about-the-patient bunch of nonsense with little pertinent information and lots of gossip because that's how the charge nurse liked it. Then management would say we are getting too much overtime. When anybody tried to tell them why we were getting so much overtime, and they realized it was because of problems they don't want to fix, they'd stop complaining about paying overtime. Arrrrgh!:angryfire

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